ITT Sound Off: American Arc of Injustice
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio talk about President Biden’s press conference to mark his first year in office, and they get into the latest on voting rights. They also discuss a new plan to resolve Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy and give an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey dear listener, a quick favor. |
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| 0:22.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey family, welcome to In the Fick, I'm Mariano Posa. |
| 0:36.8 | And I'm Julio Rica Loarella and it's Friday and it's ITT Sound off. |
| 0:41.2 | Let's get to our first topic, people which is the latest from Capitol Hill. |
| 0:47.0 | So on Wednesday, President Joe Biden gave an almost two hour long news conference. |
| 0:53.8 | I was marking one year since he took office. |
| 0:56.4 | He talked about his stalled legislation, foreign policy, the pandemic, his goals for the second |
| 1:02.0 | year of his term, I'm speaking purposefully, kind of slowly. |
| 1:07.7 | It would have helped to have something like this right out the gate. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm glad you disclosed why you were talking that way because yeah, all of a sudden there's |
| 1:15.1 | a presidency. |
| 1:16.1 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:17.1 | It's like, oh, here it is. |
| 1:19.2 | So there's a lot of sign that's going on. |
| 1:21.4 | He did call out Republicans for holding up legislation. |
| 1:24.0 | We've been trying to tell you that for a while that this was happening. |
| 1:27.0 | On Wednesday night, the Senate in fact failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass voting rights |
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